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Federal Data Privacy Regulation: Do Not Expect An American Gdpr, Matt Buckley 2023 DePaul University College of Law

Federal Data Privacy Regulation: Do Not Expect An American Gdpr, Matt Buckley

DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal

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Legal Representation And The Metaverse: The Ethics Of Practicing In Multiple Realities, Madeline Brom 2023 DePaul University College of Law

Legal Representation And The Metaverse: The Ethics Of Practicing In Multiple Realities, Madeline Brom

DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal

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Badges Of Honor: Professional Conduct, Consumer Protection, And Accolades In Lawyer Advertising, Kiren Dosanjh Zucker, Bruce Zucker 2023 California State University, Northridge

Badges Of Honor: Professional Conduct, Consumer Protection, And Accolades In Lawyer Advertising, Kiren Dosanjh Zucker, Bruce Zucker

DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal

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Welcome Address, Lauren McKenzie 2023 DePaul University

Welcome Address, Lauren Mckenzie

DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal

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Front Matter, 2023 DePaul University

Front Matter

DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal

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Arresting Assembly: An Argument Against Expanding Criminally Punishable Protest, Allison M. Freedman 2023 Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law

Arresting Assembly: An Argument Against Expanding Criminally Punishable Protest, Allison M. Freedman

Villanova Law Review

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Social Media And Free Speech: A Collision Course That Threatens Democracy, Ryan Michael Johnson 2023 Ohio Northern University

Social Media And Free Speech: A Collision Course That Threatens Democracy, Ryan Michael Johnson

Ohio Northern University Law Review

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Disrupting The Narrative: Diving Deeper Into Section 230 Political Discourse, Koustubh “K.J.” Bagchi, Elizabeth Banker, Ife Ogunleye 2023 Pepperdine University

Disrupting The Narrative: Diving Deeper Into Section 230 Political Discourse, Koustubh “K.J.” Bagchi, Elizabeth Banker, Ife Ogunleye

Pepperdine Law Review

Online spaces have undoubtedly played a significant role in facilitating discourse and the exchange of information. With this increased discourse, however, digital platforms have also seen a rise in harmful or problematic content shared online––including health misinformation, hate speech, and child sex abuse material, among others. Many commentators have put the blame for this trend on Section 230, arguing that Section 230 has enabled the spread of harmful content and suggesting that Section 230 ought to be amended or replaced. This Essay, by contrast, argues that the current narrative about Section 230 gets it wrong. In reality, Section 230 has …


Masking God In Resurrection School V. Hertel: One School’S Efforts To Exercise Religion During An Ongoing Pandemic, Sean Turnipseed 2023 Mississippi College School of Law

Masking God In Resurrection School V. Hertel: One School’S Efforts To Exercise Religion During An Ongoing Pandemic, Sean Turnipseed

Mississippi College Law Review

SARS-CoV-2, colloquially termed “COVID-19,” dramatically altered the world in which we live. But no one would have guessed the virus would spark a flurry of litigation under the U.S. Constitution’s Free Exercise Clause. Shortly after the virus began to spread, former President Donald Trump advised a twoweek plan with hopes to “flatten the curve” of COVID-19’s impact. The plan encouraged individuals to avoid gatherings with ten or more people, work and attend school from home, eat at home rather than in restaurants, and avoid discretionary travel and shopping, to name a few. But the two-week plan did not effectively thwart …


Qualified Immunity And The Unintentional, Or Intentional, Chill On Free Speech, Madison Heiney 2023 Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Qualified Immunity And The Unintentional, Or Intentional, Chill On Free Speech, Madison Heiney

Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality

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Incombustible Ideas: Evaluating The Impact Of Federal Court Opinions Regarding Book Banning In Public-School Libraries, Noah T. Holloway 2023 Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Incombustible Ideas: Evaluating The Impact Of Federal Court Opinions Regarding Book Banning In Public-School Libraries, Noah T. Holloway

Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality

No abstract provided.


Copyright And Political Campaigns: How Much Control Should A Copyright Owner Have Over The Use Of Their Musical Work In A Political Campaign, Jared Zim 2023 University of Miami Law School

Copyright And Political Campaigns: How Much Control Should A Copyright Owner Have Over The Use Of Their Musical Work In A Political Campaign, Jared Zim

University of Miami Business Law Review

Music often tells a powerful story, driving emotional connections. As a result, politicians rely on music in every aspect of their political campaigns from political advertisements to campaign rallies. There is a long history of such political uses of music, often without an artist’s permission. While most disputes over such uses have ended in either settlement or the campaign stopping use of the infringed work, former President Donald Trump’s unauthorized use of music on the campaign trail sparked countless artist complaints. The complaining musicians feared any implication that they endorsed Trump and did not want any association with a political …


Where To Place The “Nones” In The Church And State Debate? Empirical Evidence From Establishment Clause Cases In Federal Court, Gregory C. Sisk, Michael Heise 2023 St. John's University School of Law

Where To Place The “Nones” In The Church And State Debate? Empirical Evidence From Establishment Clause Cases In Federal Court, Gregory C. Sisk, Michael Heise

St. John's Law Review

In this third iteration of our ongoing empirical examination of religious liberty decisions in the lower federal courts, we studied all digested Establishment Clause decisions by federal circuit and district court judges from 2006 through 2015. The first clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution directs that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” That provision has generated decades of controversy regarding the appropriate role of religion in public life.

Holding key variables constant, we found that Catholic judges approved Establishment Clause claims at a 29.6% rate, compared with a 41.5% rate before non-Catholic …


Disinformation And The First Amendment: Fraud On The Public, Wes Henricksen 2023 St. John's University School of Law

Disinformation And The First Amendment: Fraud On The Public, Wes Henricksen

St. John's Law Review

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Following the 2020 presidential election, the losing candidate, Donald Trump, along with most of the Republican Party, spread the false claim that the election had been stolen by Democrats. Joe Biden, so the claim went, had not been legitimately elected, and was therefore an illegitimate President and needed to be removed. This profitable falsehood6 became known as the “Big Lie.” It was not only baseless, but it was in fact made in spite of and in direct conflict with the overwhelming evidence debunking it. This did not stop people from believing it. Millions bought into the Big Lie, which …


How Free Is Your Speech On Social Media? Reconciling The Circuit Split Created By The Eleventh And Fifth Circuit’S Decisions On Anti-Censorship Laws Governing Social Media Platforms, Stella Preston 2023 Mercer University School of Law

How Free Is Your Speech On Social Media? Reconciling The Circuit Split Created By The Eleventh And Fifth Circuit’S Decisions On Anti-Censorship Laws Governing Social Media Platforms, Stella Preston

Mercer Law Review

If you were to walk up to a random person on the street and ask to look at their cell phone, it is almost guaranteed that you would find one or more social media applications (apps) installed. In fact, according to a 2021 study conducted by Pew Research Center, around 72% of the adult population within the United States uses some form of social media. Some of the most notoriously known and popularly used social media apps include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. At a fundamental and foundational level, social media is used as a means of communication between people …


The ‘Weaponized’ First Amendment At The Marble Palace And The Firing Line: Reaction And Progressive Advocacy Before The Roberts Court And Lower Federal Courts, Seth F. Kreimer 2023 University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

The ‘Weaponized’ First Amendment At The Marble Palace And The Firing Line: Reaction And Progressive Advocacy Before The Roberts Court And Lower Federal Courts, Seth F. Kreimer

All Faculty Scholarship

It once seemed that the First Amendment doctrine developed by the Supreme Court stood as a bulwark protecting grassroots struggles for social change. In the twenty-first century, however, particularly since the appointments of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito in 2005, a number of observers have begun to view the Supreme Court’s First Amendment work as a “weaponized” redoubt of reaction.

This sense of the rightward tilt of Supreme Court decisions is rooted in reality. Examining 104 Supreme Court First Amendment cases decided during the 2005–2020 Terms, it turns out that successful litigants are four times as likely to come …


Boden Lecture: The Past’S Lessons For Today: Can Common-Carrier Principles Make For A Better Internet?, James B. Speta 2023 Marquette University Law School

Boden Lecture: The Past’S Lessons For Today: Can Common-Carrier Principles Make For A Better Internet?, James B. Speta

Marquette Law Review

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The Right Of Publicity: A New Framework For Regulating Facial Recognition, Jason M. Schultz 2023 Brooklyn Law School

The Right Of Publicity: A New Framework For Regulating Facial Recognition, Jason M. Schultz

Brooklyn Law Review

For over a century, the right of publicity (ROP) has protected individuals from unwanted commercial exploitation of their identities. Originating around the turn of the twentieth century in response to the newest image-appropriation technologies of the time, including portrait photography, mass-production packaging, and a ubiquitous printing press, the ROP has continued to evolve along with each new wave of technologies that enable companies to exploit peoples’ images and identities for commercial gain. Over time, the ROP has protected identities from misappropriation in photographs, films, advertisements, action figures, baseball cards, animatronic robots, video game avatars, and even digital resurrection in film …


Social Media Vigilantism, JoAnne Sweeny 2023 Brooklyn Law School

Social Media Vigilantism, Joanne Sweeny

Brooklyn Law Review

One of the most well-reported consequences of the #MeToo movement is the ramifications it has had for powerful men accused of engaging in sexual assault or harassment. As part of telling their stories, women (and some men) named their abusers, leading, in some cases, to their alleged abusers suffering legal repercussions. But, much more commonly, legal repercussions never follow, often due to the expiration of the statute of limitations for the crimes committed by the abuser. Instead, social or employment consequences were the only negative impact felt by these abusers. Still, the backlash against #MeToo includes the complaint that these …


False Speech And The First Amendment: The Problem With Free Speech In A Fake News Crisis, Eliza J. Estrella 2023 Brooklyn Law School

False Speech And The First Amendment: The Problem With Free Speech In A Fake News Crisis, Eliza J. Estrella

Brooklyn Law Review

Social media platforms are used daily by millions of Americans to connect with friends and family, shop from home, and stay attuned to current events. But the increasing ease and speed of accessing information on social media leaves its users exposed to misinformation, disinformation, and fake news that is designed to deceive. Because natural cognitive biases make individualized truth-filtering mechanisms unreliable, it is often difficult for the public to distinguish between fact and fiction. Widespread belief in viral fake news stories have caused serious and dangerous consequences to public health, safety, and democracy. However, because false speech remains categorically protected …


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